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Title: Walt Whitman to Roden Noel, 25 May 1886
Date: May 25, 1886
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03274
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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328 Mickle street
Camden New Jersey U S America
May 25 '861
Thanks for the photograph & letter—but the book has not yet reach'd me—Yes, indeed, I consider you one of my good friends in England.
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Roden Noel (1834–1894) was an
English poet. Noel came from an aristocratic English family, and in his youth
developed socialist sympathies. He was a close friend of the poet and
influential critic Robert Buchanan, and it may have been through Buchanan that
Noel first encountered Leaves of Grass, in 1871 (the same
year that he first wrote to Whitman). In 1871, Noel published an essay entitled
"A Study of Walt Whitman" in The Dark Blue (Harold
Blodgett, Walt Whitman in England [Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1934], 147–149).
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: Roden Noel | 57 Anesley Park | London S E | England. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | MAY | 25 | 130 PM | 1886 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA | MAY | 25 | 1886 | [illegible]. [back]